Peter Zicari, Northeast Ohio Media Group

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Content data analyst at North East Ohio Media Group. My name is on a lot of "Morning Links" aggregations and also on a couple thousand stories I posted for other people, going back many years, before an upgrade corrected the byline system. I develop javascript- and database-driven news widgets that appear here and there throughout the site.

Thanks for pointing out the problem. The links for the Journal Register papers, the Morning Journal and the News-Herald, lost part of the url when I copied them. Long story, short fix. They should be OK now.

Your comment is missing from the admin page for comments, which implies it was filtered out by the system. The server bites down on comments that contain profanity and links -- and maybe html code. Try re-entering the comment with no html and without "http://" in references to websites and see if that works. Further tips: Brevity is more important than it seems. BTW, the story should have been credited to the Associated Press, not me; sorry.

Since the original source of "-tron" in the names of atom-smashers is "electron" (Dictionary.com) and electrons are what generators and transformers shove around, I'd have to go with "Megatron." One or the other though, drivers have to keep out of the way...

chillie, the photo is a stock weather shot we have been using off and on for a while. I picked it because I wanted something other than the stock gas-burner shot we often use on natural gas stories. Since you asked, the sculpture is "Last" by Tony Smith, in front of the Frank J. Lausche State Office Building. You can find out more at the Ohio Sculpture Inventory, here: http://oosi.ulib.csuohio.edu/scripts/sqloosi/oosipage.asp?vcount=219.

As somebody pointed out here, it's not much of a survey unless a substantial number of people respond to it. They won't respond to it if they don't see it. They won't see it if it gets drowned in the news flow. Therefore we need it to float at the top.

The index page of OPEN has only one "featured" option, and this week's news dictates that redistricting and Obama belong in the featured slot. But the survey needs to stay near the top, where people will run across it. The way to do that is to give it an advanced timestamp, so it will float to the top of the list until the designated day.

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